Good things come, but they're never perfect; are they? You have to twist them into something perfect.

It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.

Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.

You might as well learn right now, you two, that the poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say.

In silence the three of them looked at the sunset and thought about God.

Isn't it mysterious to begin a new journal like this? I can run my fingers through the fresh clean pages but I cannot guess what the writing on them will be.

The wastes of snow on the hill were ghostly in the moonlight. The stars were piercingly bright.

Was life always like that? she wondered. A game of hide and seek in which you only occasionally found the person you wanted to be?

I cannot remember back to a year in which I did not consider myself to be a writer, and the younger I was the bigger that capital 'W.

Betsy. The great war is on but I hope ours is over. Please come home. Joe.

The silence in the room had width, height, depth, mass and substance.

Well, I once recall an old master sergeant once telling me that NCOs look after the men so that officers can figure out how to get them killed. That's the difference between maintenance and command.

Ignorance was bliss.

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

The world is not full of evil because of those who do wrong. It is full of evil because of those who do nothing.

We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.

That's my sole purpose in life is to sit here today and tell you that you can do this, in any life. You can do this in one of your past lives, in a future life, or right now. I prefer now.

I dress in a sophisticated and classy way - I always dress in a way I know my mother wouldn't be embarrassed to see.

Paper isn’t important. It’s the words on them that are important.

The successful salesperson cares first for the customer, second for the products.

Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America — that and a sense of humor that just couldn't be enslaved.